Order Rivers native soup with a swallow
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Rivers native soup is the seafood soup of the Niger Delta: fresh fish and shellfish such as periwinkles, clams and snails, thickened with cocoyam and flavoured with uziza and pepper. It is eaten with a swallow such as pounded yam or fufu, not rice. Ask at local eateries that cook native dishes which swallows they have, and go at lunch, when the pot is freshest. Order it as the local dish of the day and let the cook suggest the swallow.
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Order Rivers native soup with a swallowLocal eateries and restaurants across Port Harcourt
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